Boston Mayor Tom Menino and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel are “essentially Stalinist” for saying they wouldn’t allow Chick-fil-A to open franchises in their city, Rush Limbaugh said Friday.

“That is a direct assault on Christianity,” Limbaugh said on his radio show. “That is a direct assault on Christians, with economic punishment thrown in, including threats from government officials that are in direct violation of the Constitution.”

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Menino and Emanuel, both Democrats, made theirpronouncements after Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy created controversy by saying his company believes in “the biblical definition of the family unit.” Menino later admitted he couldn’t prevent Chick-fil-A from opening in the city, and an Emanuel spokesman said the mayor wouldn’t block the chain.

“This company hires gays, they serve gays, they don’t discriminate,” Limbaugh said. “It’s just that the owner happens to be a publicly professed, witnessing Christian.”

Limbaugh also condemned San Francisco Mayor Edmund Lee, who suggested on Twitter the chicken chain wouldn’t be welcome in the Bay Area.

“People are defecating on the escalators and the mayor of San Francisco wants everybody to know he won’t let any damn Christians in town,” he said, referring to a San Francisco Chronicle story about workers finding human waste underneath escalators in the area’s subway stations. “He wants every San Franciscan to know he won’t stand these Christians coming to town. As long as he does that, these people can defecate all over the BART escalators all they want.”

Limbaugh linked the moves to a larger attack on Christianity by Democrats.

“One of the very foundations of this country’s founding is under daily assault by one of the two popular political parties in this nation, the Democrat party,” the conservative talker said, according to audio posted on The Daily Rushbo.

“These Democrats have to do some of the most perverted things to appeal to their base,” he added later.

"ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica." El Rushbo....Why wait 5 years...............go now

Yeah, the mayor of San Fran won't let any Christians come to town. There aren't any Christians currently living in SF, you see. Only if Chick-fil-A comes to town will there be any Christians inside the city limits of San Francisco.

Dan Cathy moved from witnessing Christian to practicing anti-gay bigot when he irresponsibly dragged his company into the midst of highly charged political debate. Either that or he was naive to the point of idiocy. "Biblical definition of the family unit" is barely disguised code for no gay marriage, which is a political statement with direct policy implications. He knew exactly what he was doing. Furthermore, Rush trying to equate the backlash that Cathy is receiving with anti-Christian bias is insulting and disingenuous. Cathy picked a side in a heated political battle and threw down. If he can't stand the heat, he should have thought twice before he opened his mouth.

If Christians weren't allowed to marry, or it was inconceivable that an "out" Christian could serve in the White House, or if Christians were getting their heads kicked in for holding hands in public, then we could talk about a "direct assault" on Christianity. I only see one side getting "directly assaulted" in the real world, and it sure isn't the people that Cathy and Rush purport to represent.

Boycotting for whatever reason is a long held standard of objection for grievences.

What we've seen here however is the begining of something else. Taken to its logical extended form, all municipalities could form "values boards" where all businesses and employers will be examined from an ownership and investment standpoint in a effort to detect defective thought.

As of now I wonder how many businesses and companies are "flying under the RADAR" and have owners and investors guilty of anti-community values.

All municipalities should establish "values" criteria for all employers in their area so non-compliant ones can be identified and closed ASAP.

The dicey part comes when demographic or political change alters the "values" of the community and once compliant employers are now out of favor and must have their permits revoked.

Since there were no private businesses at all in Stalin's Soviet Union it takes all of five seconds to refute Limbaugh's charge. This of course is four seconds longer than it usually takes to refute him.

Yes, Rahm Emanuel criticizing a chain of chicken places is the same as being personally responsible for countless purges, the deaths of millions of his own people, gulags, the conquering and enslavement of other countries.Just exactly like Stalin.